Originally Posted by
Flytolive
Actually, it is a Sabre flight plan with some real-world common sense and experience injected into it by dispatchers and pilots like any flight planning system. Dispatchers have the time and inclination to compare, contrast and minimize overflight fees? That doesn't sound very practical given the manpower and time constraints. That is kind of the whole point of such automation. I don't think the whiz wheels are coming back.
I actually think it sounds conservative or why else would L-UAL have gone to the trouble to implement it and then Abbott et al sign off on it unlike most other L-UAL programs.
Like I said I do like many things about the sabre flight plan, but as far as putting too much into what our management team says we save with, well sorry that isn't one of them. But hey if you believe what they say go for it.